"Peter Tilden Brown kept a grocery store and carried on farming near Congdon's Mills in West Greenwich. He was elected a
member of the so-called Dorr Legislature from West Greenwich in 1842. He favored the extension of the right of suffrage in Rhode Island as advocated by Mr. Dorr." (source: "John Browne, Gentleman, of Plymouth" by George Tilden Brown)
Peter and Roxellana had two other children who died young: Charles b1838, and George W. b1840
In the Federal Census of 1850, the family is at West Greenwich, RI